Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jjewiethi.8.1.0087
L. Newman
The author revisits his work on the methods employed by contemporary Jewish ethicists, revising his earlier claim about both a sharp distinction between legal and narrative approaches and his critique of those who adopt a legal approach, but fail to employ rigorous legal reasoning to support their normative claims. An analysis of essays on euthanasia by three such ethicists—Byron Sherwin, David Novak, and Elliot Dorff—illustrates that their work is influenced by narrative in ways that have not been sufficiently appreciated. Aggadah influences even halakhically-oriented contemporary Jewish ethicists by providing a theoretical foundation to their work, offering a sense of coherence that guides the selection and interpretation of texts, and envisioning a world that ethicists hope to create through the moral judgments they offer.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jjewiethi.8.1.0001
Matthew Goldstone
We are living in what some have described as an “age of protest.” Nevertheless, protesting has been around for thousands of years, and some core features of contemporary discourse are already prominent in antiquity. In this article I explore three key dimensions of protest and rebuke within early rabbinic (tannaitic) literature: power, violence, and responsibility. Although protest and rebuke overlap in many respects, tannaitic discussion of these actions diverge in significant ways that grant us greater clarity into the dynamics the early rabbis perceived to be at play when attempting to effectively confront others on the individual level. I argue that the differences between rabbinic discourse about these two types of confrontation in the three aforementioned areas stem from crucial differences in the ways these acts are perceived and received. The notable nuances between rabbinic portrayals of protest and rebuke can provide insight into thinking about effective interpersonal confrontation today.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jjewiethi.8.1.0042
Nadav S. Berman
This article reconsiders a specific mishnah—Avot 5:16—which praises a disinterested love, while denouncing expressions of interested love. By referring to the alleged “love” of Amnon and Tamar, Avot 5:16 equates sexuality and interestedness with incest and rape. This exegetical choice is surprising, given the pro-natal and “carnal” trajectory of biblical and talmudic traditions, which can be described as proto-pragmatist in this regard. The paper opens by defining pragmatic interestedness vis-à-vis disinterestedness, while reviewing the prevalence of disinterestedness in modern philosophy. Section 2 examines mishnah Avot 5:16 and its advocacy of disinterested ethic, while suggesting its ideational affiliation with Platonic love and with the Christian Agape. Section 3 argues that within normative-laden Jewish tradition, as well as in classical American pragmatism, we find an embodied and integrative philosophical anthropology (or pragmatic interestedness), which deeply challenges the disinterestedness paradigm of Avot 5:16. Section 4 concludes with some reflections on the relevance of this study for the research of Jewish thought and the Humanities.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0133
Wasserman
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0137
Newman
{"title":"Reflections on David A. Teutsch's Oeuvre","authors":"Newman","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45909753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0256
Pava
{"title":"Tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks","authors":"Pava","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43999702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0153
Day
Multifaith engagement must be motivated by ethics, sustained by ethics, and constructive of ethics. Written from the perspective of Christian ethics, this article locates empathy at the core of the ethics of building meaningful inter-religious relationships and activities. It draws on the life and work of Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer to illustrate the transformative role of empathy in constructing moral courage and action.
{"title":"Empathy and Ethics in Navigating Religious Pluralism","authors":"Day","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0153","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Multifaith engagement must be motivated by ethics, sustained by ethics, and constructive of ethics. Written from the perspective of Christian ethics, this article locates empathy at the core of the ethics of building meaningful inter-religious relationships and activities. It draws on the life and work of Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer to illustrate the transformative role of empathy in constructing moral courage and action.","PeriodicalId":40209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48137501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0140
Belser
This article argues for the importance of developing queer feminist disability ethics in ways that push beyond the conventional canon, acknowledging the violence present in many traditional texts and their failures to do justice to lived disability experience. Critiquing a famous debate in the Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 17a, in which Hillel and Shammai debate the permissibility of telling a lie in order to praise the beauty of a disabled bride at her wedding, the author argues for a Jewish disability ethics that engages secular disability arts. Examining the artistry of queer disabled dancer Claire Cunningham, the essay draws out the embodied ethical insights expressed through disability arts and argues that Cunningham's work offers a more compelling answer to the Talmud's question—in her claim that love lodges in the tangible acts of paying attention to another.
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